IDE devices being ID'd as a scsi device

[Guest]

Has anyone had this happeen to them after building a new system? My HDD, CD-RW, & DVD are being identified as a scsi device when they are IDE. The only difficulty that I have is when I try to burn a data cd. I get a scsi error.... Is there anything that I can do to fix this?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks!

Vince

 

[noone]

do you have the Intel Application Accelerator (or the Intel HDD Driver)
installed? [Lots of Dells circa 2000-2001 came with it]. If so then it
is doing this, it's "normal" for several of the early versions of IAA to
falsly report SCSI. The final releases stopped doing it tho, and reported
everything as ATA.

But, you don't need that thing in XP, XP's built-in HDD drivers work fine.

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BTW,

The new (latest) IAA is _ONLY_ for serial ATA Drives connected thru the
new ICH5R chipset. The older IAA worked with regular IDE drives, and its
final rev is still available if you dig around on Intel's site. But, it's
not really necessary anymore; it did wonders on a Win98 box, but under XP
it's just not necessary. It even caused a very long boot-up on my box, as
it tried to query my Maxtor and timed-out.

 

[Matt Coy]

Vince,

It is my understanding that Windows interfaces with disk drives as though
they were SCSI, although I cannot find an article on Microsoft's site that
supports that claim.

As to your scsi error when burning a cd, does the error message indicate an
ASPI (Advanced SCSI Programming Interface) error?

"An ASPI layer consists of four files [see gray box below] that 'lie
between' various programs [software] and certain devices, such as CD/DVD-ROM
drives and CD/DVD burners/writers [hardware]. Software programs such as CD
digital audio extractors [commonly known as 'Rippers'] and CD-writing
utilities such as CDRWin use/require ASPI drivers to 'communicate with' SCSI
devices.

Many people don't realize however, that the files contained in an ASPI layer
are also used in systems that *don't* contain a SCSI adapter, or SCSI
devices .. for things such as ripping CD audio and burning CD/DVDs"
-- http://aspi.radified.com/

I would suggsest downloading Force ASPI and installing it-- double click
instaspi.bat after extracting the zip file. Restart the computer and see if
your problem has been solved.

Force ASPI
http://clonecd.gearhost.net/clonecd/forceASPI17.zip


--
Matt Coy, MCSE

Has anyone had this happeen to them after building a new system? My HDD,

CD-RW, & DVD are being identified as a scsi device when they are IDE. The
only difficulty that I have is when I try to burn a data cd. I get a scsi
error.... Is there anything that I can do to fix this?